Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aviator who claimed to have seen the capital city of the Queen of Sheba in a flight over a section of waste land in Southern Arabia midway between the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea probably saw the ruins of some ancient city, but it is doubtful whether it was ever the home of the famous queen," said Kirsopp Lake, professor of History, in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday. "The main reason for believing that it is not her city is that the volume of trade which was reputed to have flowed into her kingdom would never have been...
Sued for Divorce. William Buehler Seabrook, 48. voyageur. writer (The Magic Island, Adventures in Arabia, Jungle Ways'), confessed cannibal; by Kate Edmondson Seabrook; in Atlanta. Charge: undisclosed...
...Communist propaganda. But Soviet Russia-one-sixth of the world-is no pariah. Her government has now been recognized by Afghanistan, Austria, China, Danzig, Denmark. Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain (none of the British dominions has extended recognition), Greece, Iceland, Irak, Italy, Japan, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Norway. Persia, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, the U. S. and Uruguay...
...that hour the Turkish Grand National Assembly proclaimed the Republic with Kemal as President and entitled him to unlimited reelection. The genius of his program lay in that he renounced all the former non-Turkish possessions of the Ottoman Empire-Syria. Palestine, Mesopotamia, Arabia, Egypt. Unlike new Germany, new Turkey is led by men who have resolutely forgotten the past. From the start President Kemal, like President Roosevelt ten years later, launched his country on a policy of economic nationalism. Incidental to this basic policy, and far more spectacular, were his Westernizing reforms, his turning of Turkey's face...
...believe what he was saying, even though he had been saying something very different ten years ago, or last month, or yesterday. He must have believed in himself, and in his dicta however incipient, for not even the chanciest wag would have dared to tell the seething followers of Arabia in Cairo that British rule in Egypt was a divine thing, and that to oppose it was heresy, but only a man who believed this and was ready to be garroted for saying it. His was that great personal magnetism that can come only from sincerity, but he was temperamentally...